Actually I believe Tower Toppler was the original name (before Castelian at
least, not sure about Nebulous). The computer and Atari 7800 versions were
released in the late 1980s, with the NES and GameBoy versions in the early
1990s.
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From: Hugh Falk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: RE: [SWCollect] What was the first IBM game to have mouse support?
> Castelian??? It had another name, too ??????
>
> Tower Toppler (another great game on the ST at least!) was called Nebulous
> (sp?) in the UK and Tower Toppler in the US.
>
> Hugh
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee K. Seitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 10:42 AM
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> Subject: Re: [SWCollect] What was the first IBM game to have mouse
> support?
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>
> Chris Newman boldly stated:
> >
> >That leads to an interesting, but infrequent, phenomenon. Why ARE some
> games
> >renamed when ported to another platform? My guess is they were unpopular
on
> the
> >initial platform; a rename might give the game a fresh start.
> >
> >This would make a good list -- game renames. I have an addition: Dragon
> Lord for
> >the PC (dist by CinemaWare in 1990) was released under the name Dragon's
> Breath on
> >the Amiga.
>
> I'm not sure if this counts, but Castelian (C64(?) and NES) was
> released as Tower Toppler on the Atari 7800.
>
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